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Tom Nelson’s crew doesn’t warn everyone in the room to keep a fire extinguisher handy for no reason — this blown, methanol-burning alcohol rail engine turns the dyno room into a genuine fire show before the pull even finishes. Between the flames shooting from the headers and the torque numbers only methanol fueling can deliver, Nelson Racing Engines built an episode viewers are still calling a torque monster years later. Watch to see exactly how close this dyno room came to needing that extinguisher.

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